[Dovecot] Dovecot using more than one NIC

Alexander Hoogerhuis alexh at boxed.no
Mon Jul 23 05:09:39 EEST 2007


Andrew Petrushanco wrote:
> I'm am trying to run dovecot on a Fedora 6 Install with multiple IP's but
> Dovecot (POP3) seems to only function correctly on the 1st NIC/IP. 
> 
> It seems to be responding OK if you telnet to the 2nd or 3rd IPs, but Email
> clients timeout.
> 
>  
> 
>>From dovecot.conf
> 
>  
> 
>    protocol pop3 {
> 
>      listen = *:110
> 
>    }
> 
>  
> 
> Any suggestions  please?
> 

If the second NIC is brought up after dovecot binds to 0.0.0.0 then it
will not get connections inbound on that interface, unless I'm very
mistaken.

> Andrew 
> 

-A



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